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WalkthroughOn Android, an active ChangesAndroid child touch-target cleanup
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant NativeViewGestureHandler
participant ScrollViewHook
participant ViewGroup
NativeViewGestureHandler->>ScrollViewHook: Check cleanup hook after active ACTION_UP
ScrollViewHook-->>NativeViewGestureHandler: Return true
NativeViewGestureHandler->>ViewGroup: Dispatch copied ACTION_CANCEL
Suggested reviewers: Priority: ➖ Normal Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Nested scroll-view flings can fail to resume after an interrupted touch; skip the manual DOWN interception before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The behavior is limited to Android scroll-view gesture handling, with no demonstrated expansion of privileged access. Remaining uncertainty concerns interception-state recovery and custom native hook implementations, rather than an identified security vulnerability. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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The shouldActivateOnStart path can bypass the new native dispatch behavior and needs adjustment.
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What changed in this PR
Fixes Android phantom Touchable presses when stopping React Native ScrollView flings.
Changes:
- Defers initial touch interception for vertical and horizontal React Native scroll views.
- Preserves native fling-cancellation behavior.
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packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/core/NativeViewGestureHandler.kt |
Adjusts initial touch interception for React Native scroll views. |
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An active scroll view handler feeds the view through onTouchEvent, so the child that received the native DOWN stays recorded as the scroll view's touch target. The root view's synthetic ACTION_CANCEL before the next DOWN then runs ScrollView.onInterceptTouchEvent(CANCEL), whose springBack marks the fling finished, so the next tap reaches the Touchable under it. Clear those stale targets when the active gesture ends, and drop the DOWN special case in tryIntercept, which is no longer needed: with the fling alive, the handler intercepts the DOWN and cancels the Touchable.
When an ancestor scroll view catches its fling on DOWN, native dispatch never delivers that DOWN to the nested scroll view. Calling onInterceptTouchEvent(DOWN) on it from the handler still records the pointer, so a MOVE that drifts sideways past the touch slop makes the nested scroll view intercept, activate its handler and take the stream from the ancestor's drag: the ancestor stops and does not re-fling. With flings kept alive across the root's synthetic CANCEL, native dispatch lets an RNGH scroll view catch its own fling on DOWN, so the handler does not need to see that DOWN except for shouldActivateOnStart.
This reverts commit 34d7c6c.
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🟡 Minor · Skip manual ACTION_DOWN interception for nested scroll views. · NativeViewGestureHandler.kt:195
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSkip manual
ACTION_DOWNinterception for nested scroll views.
RNGestureHandlerRootHelperdelivers the event to the gesture orchestrator before native dispatch. If the root helper intercepts the event, native dispatch does not reach the nested scroll view. The current ordinary branch still callstryIntercept(view, event), which directly invokesonInterceptTouchEvent(DOWN)and can record the pointer.A sideways
MOVEpast touch slop can then let the nested scroll view take over the ancestor's drag, preventing the ancestor from re-flinging. Skip only this manual interception for scroll-viewACTION_DOWNevents. Keep theshouldActivateOnStartpath unchanged.Suggested fix
- tryIntercept(view, event) -> { + !isScrollViewDown(view, event) && tryIntercept(view, event) -> { hook.sendTouchEvent(view, event) activate() } @@ private fun tryIntercept(view: View, event: MotionEvent) = view is ViewGroup && view.onInterceptTouchEvent(event) + private fun isScrollViewDown(view: View, event: MotionEvent) = + event.actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN && + (view is ReactScrollView || view is ReactHorizontalScrollView) +🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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`NativeViewGestureHandler` to skip `tryIntercept(view, event)` only for
`ACTION_DOWN` events on `ReactScrollView` or `ReactHorizontalScrollView`. Keep
the `shouldActivateOnStart` path and all other interception behavior unchanged.
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Description
Fixes #4547.
On Android, a v3
Touchableinside RNGH'sScrollView/FlatListfiresonPresswhen a tap only stops a fling. This PR makes the handler clear the scroll view's stale child touch targets when its active gesture ends. The root's syntheticACTION_CANCELthen no longer ends the fling, and the nextDOWNis intercepted, as with React Native's ownScrollView.Root cause. While active, the scroll view's
NativeViewGestureHandlerfeeds the view throughonTouchEvent, so the child that received the nativeDOWNstays recorded as the scroll view's touch target. Before eachDOWN,RNGestureHandlerRootViewdispatches a synthetic CANCEL to clean up stale targets (from #4106). Because of that stale target, the CANCEL runsScrollView.onInterceptTouchEvent, whose CANCEL branch callsmScroller.springBack(...)and marks the fling finished:Scope. The cleanup dispatches CANCEL with
requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true)set, so only the children see it. It runs only forReactScrollView/ReactHorizontalScrollView(ScrollViewHook), and only onUPafter the handler wasACTIVE, when the root is already intercepting and no nativeUPstill has to reach the children. The disallow request travelling up the tree is a no-op for RNGH during orchestrator dispatch (passingTouch/isHandlingTouch).Test plan
Android emulator (API 36, 1080x2400), expo-example, a screen with
Touchablerows. Each trial scrolls to the top, then runsadb shell "input swipe 540 2000 540 900 40; input tap 540 1400". I counted only trials where the fling registered (onScrollBeginDragfired).mainScrollViewFlatListFlatList, 30 rows x 80dp (the issue's repro)ScrollView, RNFlatList(controls)Also checked with this PR:
shouldActivateOnStart: no phantom presses.